# KA-TA-RE (kaṯare)

> Kothar (divine craftsman god)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: kaṯare
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kuṯar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2773/index.md>) 'Kothar (craftsman god)'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · TA (ta) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: kṯr (Kothar wa-Khasis, divine craftsman; KTU 1.1–1.6)
- Hebrew: כּוֹשֵׁר *kōšēr* — kōšēr (כּוֹשֵׁר) "skill, success" (Eccl 2:21, 4:4; BDB 507); keter (כֶּתֶר) "crown" (Esth 1:11, 2:17; Kabbalistic Keter, highest sefirah)
- Akkadian: *kašāru* — kašāru "to restore, repair" (CAD K 282)

## Attestations

- [KH 41](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH41/index.md>): KA-TA-RE

## Commentary

KH 41 (Khania, clay tablet, LM IB): 3 · KA-TA-RE · [, broken at both ends, the numeral before the name as in the HT 86a allocations. Kothar, √k-ṯ-r: KA, not QA, which writes √q-ṭ-r in QI-TI-RI, and TA, not *118 ṬA, set it apart from qṭr 'incense'; TA writes its ṯ, as scribes wrote ṯ in the T-series beside ZU (di Mino, Ya Diktu 16–17 n. 27). Khania is western Crete's second archive, with strong Near Eastern exchange. Rival: √k-t-r 'crown', which TA writes the same way; it shares a biconsonantal *K-T with √k-ṯ-r, as √k-n-s does with √k-n-š. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-TA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-TA-RE/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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